A recent court decision affirms the FAIR USE of streaming ENTIRE movies to students enrolled in classes. This has major ramifications for any class that wants to make videos available to students online. Here's an excerpt from The Chronicle story about it: November 26, 2012 Judge Throws Out Copyright Lawsuit Over UCLA's Streaming of Videos to Students By Charles Huckabee A federal judge in California has for the second time thrown out a lawsuit that accused the University of California at Los Angeles of violating copyright law by streaming videos online. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles had previously dismissed the lawsuit in October 2011, but she allowed the plaintiffs, Ambrose Video Publishing Inc. and the Association for Information Media and Equipment, a trade group, to file a second amended complaint. In a ruling issued last Tuesday, she rejected the second amended complaint. The plaintiffs contended that UCLA had acted illegally in copying DVD's of Shakespeare plays acquired from Ambrose and streaming them online for faculty and students to use in courses. UCLA argued that streaming the videos was permissible under the fair-use principle, which can allow reproductions for teaching, and the Teach Act, which allows limited use of copyrighted materials for online education. ... [UCLA's] lawyer, R. James Slaughter of Keker & Van Nest LLP, told the news service Law360 that the ruling "confirms what UCLA has long believed: that streaming previously purchased video content over its intranet for educational purposes is not a copyright violation or a violation of any contract." http://chronicle.com/article/Judge-Throws-Out-Lawsuit-Over/135932/ -- Jeremy Butler www.TVStyleBook.com www.ScreenLex.org www.ScreenSite.org www.TVCrit.com www.ShotLogger.org www.AllThingsAcoustic.org Professor - TCF Dept. - U Alabama ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]